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AMD Threadripper Pro 5000 and EPYC Milan-X join Ryzen 5800X3D for March availability

It will be an unexpectedly busy March for AMD, with the company launching three distinct products across its processor lines. The first one, which we reported earlier this morning, speaks of a late-March availability of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-core/16-thread Socket AM4 processor, which AMD claims offers gaming performance on par with the Core i9-12900K "Alder Lake." It turns out, there are two more surprises.

Apparently the company is ready with Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 series workstation processors. Designed for Socket sWRX8 motherboards based on the only chipset option available—the AMD WRX80, these are the first Threadripper products based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, and feature 8-channel DDR4 memory, and up to 128 PCI-Express Gen4 lanes for workstation connectivity. Unfortunately, you can't buy one of these in the retail channel, as AMD is making them OEM-only. The first pre-built workstations will arrive as early as next week (March 8). At this point we still don't know if these chips use the newer "Zen 3" CCD with 3D Vertical Cache, or the conventional "Zen 3" CCD with 32 MB planar L3 cache.

Lastly, there are AMD's ambitious EPYC "Milan-X" processors, which are essentially server processors in the SP3 package, which use the "Zen 3" CCDs that have 3D Vertical Cache, which make up 100 MB of total cache per CCD, and 800 MB of total cache for the 64-core/128-thread model. AMD is claiming 3DV Cache to offer a generational performance uplift with several streaming data use-cases, and the lure of drop-in compatibility with existing SP3 infrastructure could win customers for these processors, in the run up to the next-generation EPYC "Genoa" processor that leverages "Zen 4" microarchitecture, and next-gen I/O, but needs a new Socket.

Izvor: TechPowerUp